What do you know about Internal Family Systems therapy or IFS? If you’re like many of us, your answer is, at most, “not much.” It’s an approach to therapy that identifies and addresses different parts ...

IFS therapy is talk therapy based on a theory that everyone’s personality contains multiple “parts,” or sub-personalities, that need space to speak, grieve, and heal. It may help conditions like PTSD.

Internal Family Systems is the latest therapy trend for a traumatized United States. But can splitting ourselves into parts be a science? Internal Family Systems has been wholeheartedly embraced by ...